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Kagenori Ueno

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Kagenori Ueno
上野 景範
BornJanuary 8, 1845 (1845-01-08)
DiedApril 11, 1888 (1888-04-12) (aged 43)

Kagenori Ueno (上野 景範, Ueno Kagenori, January 8, 1845 – April 11, 1888) was Japanese Consul in Great Britain from 1874 to 1879. He spoke English and Dutch, which he learned in Kagoshima.[1]

In 1875 was involved in negotiations with the Ottoman Ambassador to London about the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations between the Turkish and the Japanese governments.[2]

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  1. ^ Yamaji Aizan (2000). The Awakening of the Japanese People I. Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan. University of Michigan Press. pp. 47–51. doi:10.3998/mpub.22854. ISBN 9780939512935. JSTOR 10.3998/mpub.22854. Ueno Kagenori (1844-88) studied English and Dutch in his native Kagoshima before the Restoration, and in the early Meiji period he worked as a senior foreign ministry official and diplomat.
  2. ^ Nobuo Misawa (March 2009). "The Influence of the Ottoman Print Media in Japan: The Linkage of Intellectuals in the Eurasian World" (PDF). Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies (2): 36–42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-03-23.